How do you get Charlie Savage at New York Times, NPR, the Associated Press to cover the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation dismissal all on the same day? Easy, have DOJ announce that an official ethics inquiry found no evidence of wrongdoing by the people who ordered the black panther case dismissed. Of course this mid-week release is old news to PJM readers, or anyone who read Savage’s December 2010 interview with Attorney General Eric Holder when he telegraphed his views that no wrongdoing occurred. The author of the OPR report had been appointed by Holder a few days earlier. Savage incorrectly reports: “The case had been developed by an attorney hired during a period when the Bush administration . . . tried to fill the division’s career ranks with conservatives.” Of course Charlie could read the complaint and see far more than “an attorney” worked on the case. But that might bust up his narrative. The final report has changed from what it was on March 14, 2011, but that is a whole different story for another day. Maybe now that the Black Panther case has ended in the mind of the New York Times, Savage can turn his attention to the discriminatory FOIA policies of this DOJ, and why they won’t release resumes that Savage obtained in a few days during the Bush administration. Don’t hold your breath. Also watch for lots of papers who had no interest in covering the New Black Panther dismissal to suddenly show interest this week.
If you want to see how this story ends, look at climategate. Short version: it doesn’t end.
Hopefully this will come up as just one of the items in the impeachment proceedings along with the shipment of AK47s to the drug cartels in Mexico…whose impeachment? Might not be one if the Congress demands Holder’s resignation
How come our great leader didn`t have a meeting with the black thugs and the intimidated potential voters to clear the racial air.You know something along the lines that the frightened voters picked the wrong time to vote and thus upset the black clad guys with billy clubs.And it was all a misunderstanding.
“The case had been developed by an attorney hired during a period when the Bush administration . . . tried to fill the division’s career ranks with conservatives.”
Nice of him to admit that government hires only communists.
So that’s what “OPR” stands for: Only Prosecute Republicans.
Like Soviet and Eastern Bloc media. Readers of the Times and listeners of NPR learn something has happened — in this instance, a case of voter intimidation accusing the NBP — only after the appropriate party line or response has been created to ‘resolve’ it. Shameful.